Anti-Heterosexual #Feminism

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My #GamerGate coverage had only just begun when @streever — who obviously doesn’t know me from Adam’s housecat — made the mistake of disputing my authority to describe feminism as “anti-male and anti-heterosexual.” This is not necessarily @streever‘s fault.

The whole point of my “Sex Trouble” series about radical feminism’s war on human nature is that the vast majority of people, including many otherwise normal women who naively call themselves “feminists,” don’t know the truth about feminist theory — its esoteric doctrine, as opposed to its exoteric discourse. Your typical ordinary “feminist” is merely a liberal whose ideological commitment is no more profound than this: “Vote Democrat — because vagina!”

Understand what I mean when I say feminism is a journey to lesbianism: There are lifelong lesbians who aren’t feminists for the simple reason that they don’t need a theory to justify themselves and they don’t enjoy politically correct sex. Non-feminist lesbians include not a few stone butch dykes who refuse to listen to post-modern crypto-Marxist lectures about why their preference for masculine wardrobe, penetration and domination is the “wrong” way to be lesbian. Furthermore, there are many lesbians who just don’t hate men enough to be feminist. In fact, a lot of ladies who are “playing for the other team” (to use the famous Seinfeld phrase) have an ironic empathy for the problems of heterosexual men, as lesbians also have to deal with the typical woes of trying to get along with women. (Some ex-lesbians are “ex-” for this very reason: They can’t cope with the hormonal drama.) Anyone who looks at exit-poll data must realize there are more Republican lesbians than the mainstream media is willing to admit; if you’re pro-capitalism and pro-America, it’s kind of hard hard to be a feminist.

So, there are non-feminist lesbians and there are “heterosexual feminists,” but the latter category is rather timidly defensive within the field of Women’s Studies, where “raging lesbian feminists” prevail and gender theory necessitates problematizing heterosexuality. It is certainly no accident that the most widely assigned anthology of feminist literature — Feminist Frontiers, a common textbook for Introduction to Women’s Studies classes at American universities — is edited by three lesbians. The best and most recent research indicates that heterosexual women outnumber lesbian/bisexual women by a ratio greater than 40-to-1 (97.7 percent to 2.3 percent), but if you were to attend next month’s annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, you would find the NWSA Lesbian Caucus accounts for far more than 2.3% of the faculty and graduate students in attendance, and nobody in the NWSA would dare challenge the Lesbian Caucus directly. The heterosexuals in Women’s Studies “know their place,” so to speak, and their metaphorical place is in the back of the feminist bus.

“If you consider sexual desire and romantic love between men and women to be natural and healthy, you are not a feminist. . . . There is nothing natural about sex, according to feminist ideology, no biological urge that causes women to be attracted to men.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, April 10, 2014

Beyond this demonstrable phenomenon of the extraordinary lesbian influence on radical feminism as it is taught on our university campuses, however, beyond all the quotes I could produce to demonstrate that phenomenon, there is the simple truth: Feminist theory is incompatible with (and hostile to) the normal woman’s life of men, marriage and motherhood. A woman might be a heterosexual feminist, but she can never be a happy heterosexual feminist, because feminism’s core beliefs are that (a) all women’s problems are consequences of male oppression, (b) this oppression (patriarchy) is systemic and pervasive, (c) all women suffer from patriarchal oppression and all men benefit from it, (d) the nuclear family is the basic institutional unit of patriarchy, (e) both normal gender (i.e., sex roles, and our concepts of masculinity and femininity) and normal sexuality are “social constructs” produced to serve the interests and fit the prejudices of male-dominated patriarchal society, and (f) women cannot be equal until they destroy this system. Feminists must, as their slogan says, “Smash Patriarchy.”

“Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies.”
— Andrea Dworkin, 1989

“Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual woman’s erotic attraction . . . Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices.”
— Marilyn Frye, 1992

“Male sexual violence against women and ‘normal’ heterosexual intercourse are essential to patriarchy because they establish the dominance of the penis over the vagina, and thus the power relations between the sexes.”
— Dee Graham, 1994

“Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.”
— Sheila Jeffreys, 2005

Anyone with two eyes and common sense can see this, and every honest feminist must admit it. But honest feminists are rather rare, and I’m always grateful to encounter the forthright radical lesbian who speaks the blunt truth about the feminist agenda. Confronted with what feminism actually means, the normal woman’s reaction is no different than the normal man’s reaction: They’re horrified by the anti-human totalitarian hatred implicit in this doctrine.

The naive liberal who calls herself a “feminist” in 2014 is much like the naive liberals who, in the 1930s and ’40s, joined Communist front groups because they believed the dishonest Popular Front rhetoric of “peace,” “justice” and “civil rights.” Ronald Reagan, who admitted that he himself had been deceived during his days as a bleeding-heart liberal, became the history’s most famous foe of Communism. Reagan liked to joke that the difference between a Communist and an anti-Communist is that the Communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin, while the anti-Communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

So it is with feminism now, and members of the videogaming community have rather accidentally been given an opportunity to understand feminism. Thanks, “Social Justice Warriors”!

Readers may ask, “What does #GamerGate have to do with #feminism as a journey to lesbianism?” Maybe not much. Or maybe everything.

Videogames are a male-dominated phenomenon, which is a bad thing, as far as I’m concerned. I lost interest in videogames more than 30 years ago simply because feeding quarters into a Pac Man machine was a waste of time and money. Our family has a little Pac Man console that we packed away the last time we moved and I haven’t unpacked it yet, but I occasionally used to plug in Pac Man and spend an hour or two racking up a high score, then toss it aside and dare the kids to top my high score. But I quit videogames before FPRP (First-Person Role-Playing) games became the norm, and so I never developed an appetite for “Mortal Kombat,” “Grand Theft Auto” or “Call of Duty.” My teenage son wastes hours playing “League of Legends,” much to my dismay. Time spent playing games is time that could be better spent on something useful and productive, and it is disheartening to see bright young people develop a habit of (or rather, an addiction to) time-wasting.

In her book Men on Strike, Dr. Helen Smith criticizes the stereotype of male gamers as stunted, puerile losers. However, (a) it’s hard to see how playing “Madden” all day is compatible with a fully functional adult life, and (b) couldn’t those endless hours of gaming be better spent on some income-generating activity, or at least something with real-life utility? But having spent my own adolescence in a haze of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, maybe I shouldn’t be so harshly judgmental of the arguably less harmful recreations available via XBox and Playstation.

Yet if teenage boys (and adult men) would rather spend time playing “World of Warcraft” than working, educating themselves, or pursuing the companionship of females, why? Isn’t it a fact — as I believe Dr. Smith would agree — that the workplace and schools have become hostile to men in many ways, and that relationships with women are less satisfying to men because of the anti-male attitudes feminism has encouraged women to adopt? If universities now treat normal male sexuality as a sort of hate crime waiting to happen, if a man can lose his job for even daring to flirt with a female co-worker, and if any potential girlfriend would bring to a romantic relationship a towering stack of resentments against males, what options are left to the young bachelor? Why bother? Instead he spends all weekend in a “Call of Duty” gaming marathon, an emotionally satisfying activity he perhaps interrupts only to (a) sleep, (b) order a pizza, and (c) jack off to some porn.

This is sad beyond words, but there is obviously a reason that videogames are a multibillion-dollar industry, just as there’s obviously a reason a vast amount of the Internet is nothing but porn.

Now, however, as a result of #GamerGate, this poor fellow discovers that one of his few remaining pleasures in life — the games that occupy such a large part of his leisure hours — is threatened by feminists whining about the need for “diversity” and “inclusion,” complaining about “objectification” and “sexualization” and of course, THE MALE GAZE!

You expected these dudes to meekly accept your feminist lectures?

Not just no — hell, no. When you back men into a corner and terrorize them with threats, don’t be surprised to learn that the patriarchy knows how to smash back.

Feminists have finally pushed their bullshit too far. I’m as surprised as anyone that #GamerGate has turned into what it is, but somehow a worldwide army of geeks and nerds has been mobilized to fight the feminist menace. Better late than never, guys.




 

 

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  2. There is a particular angle of inquiry about feminism that I am pursuing, rather than a general survey of the field. My point is that feminism — at its core — involves a war against human nature. That is to say, underneath it all, the “social construction” critique of gender and sexuality is an attempt to dethrone actual science, so that they are arguing for a post-biological future. This has been a consistent theme within feminism since the 1970s, and remains relevant. Consider post-structuralism, Judith Butler and “queer theory” — all of this is an attempt to say that biology (DNA, chromosomes, reproductive function) can be ignored in discussing male and female, masculine and feminine, the appropriate roles of men and women, and their sexual relationships.

    If sex is only pleasure, and if we regard sex as a phenomenon outside of and apart from its reproductive purposes, then what is “sex”? If we then make this denaturalized (post-biological) sex a matter of political identity, what results?

    You see this is a formula for madness, and that the society which adopts this anti-natural belief system will spin wildly out of control. All it takes is a discerning glance at the daily headlines to see that THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING.

  3. Editorial note: Paragraph three is a little confusing.

    Regarding gamers: most of the gamers I met in my twenties were very well-paid computer nerds. So lack of job/career isn’t the problem for a sizable percentage of gamers (male and female).

    Overall, this is another important piece of the puzzle, regarding the clarification about non-feminist lesbians.

    But this question is the big, new chapter, from what I can see:

    If universities now treat normal male sexuality as a sort of hate crime waiting to happen, if a man can lose his job for even daring to flirt with a female co-worker, and if any potential girlfriend would bring to a romantic relationship a towering stack of resentments against males, what options are left to the young bachelor?

    Can o worms, dude. Open it!

  4. Why must people lard up things with new terms where perfectly adequate terms already exist.

    This “intersectionaility” is a perfect example. It used to be called “academic rigor” or “due diligence.” Those areas of overlap (not really intersections, are they?) were always covered in work by competent researchers.

  7. No, the point remains.

    Communist leaders are profoundly not communist. They are merely opportunists like Putin, who have climbed up the dungheap to get away from the communists who keep them in luxury.

    Those people clearly understand Marx&Lenin

    Ideological communists (the ones who believe) definitely do not understand Marx & Lenin.

  10. It puzzles me to no end why so many people buy into this…

    I suppose that, at the core, it’s because only women must personally endure pregnancy and childbirth… One could argue, perhaps, that that’s not really fair—but that doesn’t change the way it is!

  12. Men have been figuring out how to make their own sandwiches the last couple decades. It’s kinda a thing. And it’s gaining momentum. Better start playing nicer.

  14. Hmm… that’s not really evidence. I’m looking for quotations, not just strange analogies.

  15. Wait, you mean you’re a regular feminist who thinks the sexes should be equal, but you have no desire to kill male babies or destroy everything I care about? But they said you didn’t exist!

    Honestly, I think people here are overreacting just a tad bit. What Anita Sarkeesian does is exactly the same as if, say, a conservative made a series of videos in which they put forth the view “I’m tired of action movies starring skinny teens. Harry Potter, Edward Cullen, Katniss Everdeen, Shia LeBoeuf. They’re only cast to appeal to teens, and don’t look like they could fight. I miss action movies with manly-male protagonists like Clint Eastwood and Ah-nuld.”

    Would that be controversial? Because that’s all Sarkeesian is doing, asking for a few more games with female leads (who don’t wear thongs) and a few less princesses needing to be saved.

  16. I personally haven’t played games in about 12 years because, like our esteemed host, I find them to be a time drain and I’d rather focus on my side business, which is more useful and productive. But let’s not kid ourselves, people like to waste time. Have you heard of this game “football?” Millions of americans waste hours a week sitting on their duffs, watching games passively, stuffing themselves with Doritos and beer, and obsessing over fantasy football stats. I double dare anyone here to make a case as to why games are more wasteful than watching football, or any other sport for that matter. Challenge accepted?

  17. Yeah, I can’t fault her for that, I suppose. I just hope that with that sort of support, she’d donate a portion to charity, or else find some way to use that money for the project. If 98% of the money went into her personal account, well… I wish I was smart enough to come up with a racket like that.

  18. What you’re digging up is fascinating stuff and shows the true origins of the movement. Despite its claims of being against the white feminism you are researching, third wave intersectionality only expands the racial/colonialism/Third World angle. It’s rhetoric and fantasies are otherwise identical: male inferiority, oppression, and privilege have done women in. But it’s amusing the former 3 term president of the Science Fiction Writers of America John Scalzi (who once wrote a post about white privilege) asked folks on his blog to “please bone up on the concept of intersectionality.”. That brought you to a PDF titled “Intersectionality 101” where an Ahir Golpadas hilariously lists vectors of oppression “to include age, attractiveness, body type, caste, citizenship, education, ethnicity, height and weight assessments, immigration status, income, marital status, mental health status, nationality, occupation, physical ability, religion, sex, sexual orientation.”

  20. Oh I got that bit. This penchant for naming things that don’t need them is how the unpublished find tenure in college. No one else cares about those terms.

    It’s like deciding that “mechanic” is somehow not adequate to label one who specializes in aircraft engines, and thus coming up with “aeromechanic.” Bit silly, really. Especially if you work on airboats.

  21. It’s only a conversation if the assholes on both sides don’t succeed in convincing the rest of us there isn’t one.

  23. So you admit you don’t know WTF is going on with gaming or the causes of #Gamergate, but you come in here to tell us how wrong we all are. Thanks for nothing.

  25. The kindnesses that men and women show to each other become “functions” when they fill “needs” — and women have needs too. However, women are just friends, enemies, relatives, and co-workers to me; they don’t serve any function for me whatsoever, because I don’t need them for anything, unlike those male feminists who are so desperate for feminine approval that they will smile and nod at the most shockingly (female) chauvinist statements. (I’m one of those men going their own way that Helen Smith was referring to in the book mentioned above.)

  26. […] The troll @streever jumped into my Twitter timeline Friday to challenge my assertion that “Feminism is anti-male, anti-heterosexual and — most importantly — ANTI-FREEDOM.” This inspired me to reiterate the basic theme of the “Sex Trouble” series, by way of demonstrating its relevance to the #GamerGate controversy. […]

  27. I’m guessing that Ahir was morbidly obese, from the poor construction of the categories. Attractiveness, body type, height and weight assessments, and physical ability are too strongly related to all be listed separately by the same kind of person that would put them in alphabetical order. Someone had an ax to grind. 😉

  28. I never bothered with a comb-over. I already had my girl of 40 years completely and thoroughly oppressed, so I didn’t have to bother.

  29. MY son greatly enjoyed World of Warcraft during his upper-division and grad school days in Engineering School. As you know, Engineering Schools tend to have the female population of a cloister.

    Frankly, I think the lack of feminine pulchritude in Engineering School is a good thing. Fewer distractions in the learning process.

    Later, after he was out in the real world, the women he met were insane. One dumped without saying it in so many words and then after my son moved on, she started stalking him. He’s exhausted the chicks at Church and, while he would still like to find a decent girl to marry, he’s having a seriously hard time. I have the feeling he will have to go off shore.

  30. My girl is in Tidewater Virginia seeing to the affairs of a mother in the 1st stages of dementia and I’ve seen that my sammich making skills are still quite good.

  33. The left coins terms as camouflage. Many terms they repurpose to the same end.

    Being something of an “airhead” I value the use of qualifiers for an aircraft mechanic. While much of what is learned as an auto mechanic transfers, there is also a body of knowledge that is required of A&P that is not learned by an auto mechanic. Some new terms are quite righteous.

  34. So long as the guys are pinned to the big screen with the game and the beer commercials, I hold the power of the sammich!

  35. Sorry to hear about the mother…I had the same thing going on with my mom, and it’s tough. REALLY tough. There will be days when your girl will definitely appreciate some highly skilled sammich making.

  36. Well, from my limited exposure to aircraft mechanics (the people – I do know one), and from my understanding of flight mechanics (the science), I don’t see a lot of new terms for the same old things. A rotor is a rotor, a piston is a piston, etc. New things for an auto mechanic, like gas turbines, have all sorts of genuinely new stuff, each of which typically bears the name given to them a long time ago (typically as approved by the SAE/IEEE). But the mechanic (the person) who works on them is still called a mechanic. The machinist who repairs parts is still called a machinist, etc.

    I’m just being a noodge. But sometimes I think universities exist to destroy about as much knowledge as they supposedly provide.

  37. Quite a number of the anti-GG whackjobs sport trendy rainbow hair. We have suspected that there’s something specifically in hair dye which is directly related to mental illness. We should probably alert NIH and the USDA.

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  40. RSM,
    You asked why do the men of today’s society get into games? The answer is pretty simple. My dad, godfather and all my uncles and cousins over the age of 45 remember doing outdoors stuff like Fishing, hunting, racing cars or motorcycles. The reality is since the 1990s we have seen an aggressive and active attempt by the leftists to remove race tracks, eliminate the ability of folks to go into the woods and participate in conservation efforts like Hunting or Fishing without paying huge dollar amounts, let alone those that love to race motorcycles or quads out in the woods can’t do the same without getting a thousand permits from the EPA before you even talk to BLM to get the other eight thousand. Lets not even talk about how most race tracks have been eliminated by noise, insurance and NIMBYism complaints. So the guys who used to go out and tweak cars or bike to take them out on Friday nights or summer nights of race what you brung can’t do the same because its too expensive to maintain the tracks or too expensive to get into the hobby. Lets not even talk about all the rules, insurance, fees, and other regulatory BS for intramural adult leagues of everything from European Football to softball to ice hockey has been put so high that only the rich can participate.
    A video game takes a $300 dollar system (if you are using a console) or a high end computer, an internet connection and the willingness to fork over $60-80 bucks for the latest and greatest electrons to dance for you. Let alone you can hook up with people all over the world and the leftist haven’t found a way to price it out of the way of the blue collar folks to have ways to do something. I would suggest that you correlate your research with the rise of feminist theory and the fact that Robert Putnam found the collapse of social capital and classic American democracy as we got away from social clubs because they were too expensive to maintain those social clubs (whether it was a car club or a bowling league or even the VFW). It might be interesting findings.

  41. Sucks doesn’t it… like when 2nd Am advocates get “Hope your kid gets shot and killed you… blah blah blah…” No one HERE made any sort of bad comment about your cancer. I hope it stays in remission and that you live a long and healthy life.

    Did you happen to notice my comment about gaming for people who were ill or unable to get out and about? I didn’t elaborate about who was terminally ill, but he was our guild leader when he died.

  43. That sounds like a bit of a lonely life, but if it works for you, it works. I’m kind of shocked that some random person above immediately decided that I’m a PUA(???) in need of female attention? if that were so, I’d have stuck with this girl that I went on a date with last week. She was DTF on the first night, but I wasn’t interested. Had to say goodbye. Career = more important than fun at the moment. If there’s one thing that modern young people fail to appreciate the virtues of, its rampant workaholism. They are so bored, these kids.

  44. Mark Twian, I believe, said that Colleges exist to develop knowledge and keep it to themselves.

    You are correct as far as terms go, and as I said most of what an auto mechanic learns is transferable. But, the FAA has some pretty good hurdles one must vault to become and A&P. A lot of what an A&P must know will not be picked up as an auto mechanic. Most of it is in the dealings with the FAA and extra knowledge they require. But, for the basic machinery, you are correct.

  45. In our near 40 years together, she has been able to take advantage of my Sammich making ability many times.

  46. An important conversation to have with who?

    And of course it isn’t a clear cut us-verses-them or something but I’m a bit sensitive to being appropriated because of my lady parts into other people’s crusades. This same particular fight is going on in any number of different venues. It’s the same fight where, in science fiction, we’re supposed to be upset about sexy women on book covers and if you’re not willing to join in the outrage you’re, well… something stinky that must be opposed somehow. In comics we’re supposed to not notice that the male superheroes are wearing body paint and simply believe it when someone, full of outrage for the way female superheroes are drawn, claims “they never draw men like that” when of course they do. In popular culture it’s the Jezebel or XX factor or whatever those online magazines are where there will be a heartrending story about how the author’s young son just loooooved Iron Man and how appalled she is that her little boy is fascinated by this role model of individual heroism… and the rational person reads this stuff and thinks…

    Dear gawd… they’ve all lost their minds.

  47. Not at all. You are putting words in Weedlord’s mouth and he objects to it. Even though I no longer have the time to play games, most of my friends do. As for Gamergate, that’s a news story like any other that requires reading comprehension, not video game expertise. I just suspect that many of the people here who immediately trash gamers as “time-wasters” probably are the sort of folk who spend time watching football or other sports, and don’t spend every spare minute of their leisure time doing “useful” things like gardening or welding. I myself enjoy watching TV series on DVD like Breaking Bad, the Sopranos, The Wire. Is it a waste of time? Sure, I suppose I could come home after work and knit mittens, but that wouldn’t be as much fun. Agree? Disagree? Share your thoughts with Weedlord.

  48. But having kids could be a need, which would turn birth into a function, and then I would be an oppressor, which would just be a huge drag that could easily result in my having neither wife, nor kids, nor money. At least now I have money.

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